Alonso Urrutia and Emir Olivares
The newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, September 5, 2024, p. 5
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador yesterday congratulated the deputies who approved the judicial reform and stressed that this legal package seeks to clean up corruption in the administration of justice.
At the morning conference he also questioned the ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation for joining the strike of judicial workers: What they are doing is ridiculous, they are degrading the institution they represent. I hope they take a deep breath and calm down.
because the action has no legal basis.
For the president, those who oppose changes in the judiciary lack legal, moral or political foundations, because in reality they defend privileges in a sector where corruption prevails.
Judges, magistrates, ministers, yes, with honourable exceptions, but the majority represent the mafias of economic power and also organised crime. How can corruption be defended?
he explained.
He again pointed to the academic and former minister of the court Diego Valadés, and others like him
who, he said, oppose the reform because they participate in the network of collusion and complicity surrounding the Judiciary or do so because of their conservative ideology.
Without question, López Obrador disqualified the decision of the majority of the ministers of the Court to support and join the work stoppage. Those who should be the guardians of the constitutionality and legality of the acts are the ones who commit violations and, in addition, with full pay.
He added with irony that the action It will give us peace of mind, because a Court that is on strike will not make decisions against the people. And the judges and ministers will no longer be releasing criminals, nor will they be giving reason to the powerful, because in reality they do not dispense justice for the benefit of the people, they only defend the groups with vested interests.
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Asked about the rulings by judges seeking to halt the legislative process of the reform, he described these rulings as desperate interference and an inappropriate outburst.
There is no constitutional or legal basis for stopping work in the Legislative Branch.
López Obrador recalled that in just over 20 days his mandate ends And I leave with a clear conscience, because the reform of the Executive Branch and the reform of the Legislative Branch have already been carried out, because the people voted for the transformation to continue, that is why there is a majority of deputies and senators. The reform of the Judicial Branch is fair and necessary.
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–Do you see any risk that the reform of the judiciary will not be approved, at least before you leave?
–No, no. But that is a matter of time, of procedure. The important thing is that they approve it.
